TAUKE, THOMAS J. (a Representative from Iowa)
Addresses
Telecommunications and the World Information Revolution—Making Ends Meet: Daniel L. Brenner, 18681
Amendments offered by, to
Commodity Exchange Act: amend relative to trading regulations (H.R. 2869), 20352 [13SE]
Appointments
Biomedical Ethics Board, 2610 [23FE]
Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care, 2225 [21FE]
Committee on Aging (Select), 5878 [10AP]
Conferee: H.R. 1312, extend Domestic Volunteer Service Act programs, 21764 [27SE]
———H.R. 2742, amend and extend the Library Services and Construction Act, 26789 [1NO]
———H.R. 3299, budget reconciliation, 25093 [18OC]
Articles and editorials
Bell Babies Clearly Require a New Formula, James Flanigan, Los Angeles (CA) Times, 10199
Consumers on Hold—The Future Could Be Today if the Baby Bells Were Allowed To Grow Up, Jerome Ellig, 26878
Elderly Americans Get a Raw Deal, James Kilpatrick, 7061
Time for New Ideas on Day Care, Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta, Washington (DC) Post, 15714
Bills and resolutions introduced by
Broadcasting stations: license renewal requirements (see H.R. 2682), 12283 [19JN]
Budget: Presidential authority to reduce (see H.R. 3271), 20403 [13SE]
Crime and criminals: cause of action for certain victims against producers and distributors of pornography (see H.R. 3785), 30407 [20NO]
Day care: provide (see H.R. 1840), 6330 [12AP]
Income: congressional, executive, and judicial salaries and pensions (see H.R. 401; H.J. Res. 109), 208 [4JA], 1151 [27JA]
Maeron, Kim: relief (see H.R. 1039), 2269 [21FE]
Railroads: ICC authority relative to acquisition of control of certain carriers (see H.R. 2343), 9140 [15MY]
———protection of employees in certain transactions (see H.R. 2062), 6882 [18AP]
Rural Health Clinics Act: amend (see H.R. 1585), 5270 [23MR]
Social Security: earnings test (see H.R. 3561), 26589 [31OC]
Television: promoting improvements in the industry (see H.R. 823), 1396 [2FE]
Bills and resolutions introduced by, as cosponsor
Abortion: right to life (see H.R. 623; H.J. Res. 103), 346 [24JA], 1151 [27JA]
Advertising: mailing of sexually oriented material (see H.R. 1210), 3099 [1MR]
Aeronautics: Essential Air Service Program (see H. Con. Res. 3), 2800 [27FE]
———prohibit seating discrimination against blind (see H.R. 563), 5338 [3AP]
Agriculture: eliminate the disease of scrapie in sheep and goats (see H.R. 799), 7544 [26AP]
———financial assistance for commercialization of research (see H.R. 1505), 4989 [20MR]
———soybeans producers' nationally coordinated program (see H.R. 2209), 8072 [3MY]
Air pollution: amend provisions relative to acid deposition (see H.R. 1470), 4488 [16MR]
———clean air standards (see H.R. 3030), 16563 [27JY]
Armed Forces: posthumous citizenship procedures for aliens who die on active duty (see H.R. 150), 7437 [25AP]
———retaining certain information in personnel files of individuals in a missing status or deceased (see H.R. 1730), 26344 [26OC]
Baltic Freedom Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 184), 11243 [7JN]
Banks and banking: extend period for issuing mortgage bonds and credit certificates (see H.R. 1200), 14905 [17JY]
Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see H.J. Res. 268), 8915 [11MY]
———use of current spending levels in preparation for each new fiscal year (see H.R. 1613), 5271 [23MR]
Bureau of the Census: exclude certain wages earned in temporary positions in determining income for veterans' benefits (see H.R. 2856), 20403 [13SE]
———exclude wages from temporary positions from Social Security earnings test determinations (see H.R. 2857), 20403 [13SE]
Census: count relative to congressional apportionment (see H.R. 1468), 5683 [6AP]
Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner Day: designate (see H. Con. Res. 141), 12494 [20JN]
Children: protect rights of victims of child abuse (see H.R. 579), 348 [24JA]
Coast Guard: bicentennial (see H.J. Res. 265), 13963 [29JN]
Committee on Ways and Means: report single-taxpayer relief bills with identity, sponsor, and revenue cost (see H. Res. 121), 8074 [3MY]
Community Foundation Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 425), 26345 [26OC]
Comprehensive Food Safety Inspection Act: enact (see H.R. 3071), 17334 [1AU]
Computers: penalties for interfering with operations by use of hidden commands (see H.R. 55), 16565 [27JY]
Contracts: Federal construction and small business participation in Federal contracting (see H.R. 2259), 8207 [4MY]
Council Bluffs, IA: trails interpretation center (see H.R. 952), 3101 [1MR]
Courts: immunity from personal civil liability relative to volunteers working on behalf of nonprofit organizations and Government entities (see H.R. 911), 10050 [23MY]
Credit: residential mortgage transactions (see H.R. 583), 325 [20JA]
Crime and criminals: mandatory minimum sentence for unlawful possession of a firearm (see H.R. 2529), 26963 [2NO]
———racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations (see H.R. 1046), 5516 [5AP]
Day care: tax credit (see H.R. 1466), 4488 [16MR]
Deaf Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 140), 2070 [9FE]
Decade of the Brain: designate (see H.J. Res. 174), 13279 [23JN]
Dept. of the Treasury: issuance of Drug War Bonds (see H.R. 2972), 25411 [20OC]
Domestic Volunteer Service Act: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 2421), 9649 [18MY]
Eating Disorders Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 214), 21590 [26SE]
Education: remove restrictions in Federal programs that limit opportunities for open enrollment (see H.R. 3697), 30117 [19NO]
———treatment of family assets relative to determination of student aid needs (see H.R. 1581), 5270 [23MR]
Emergency Medical Services Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 133), 20404 [13SE]
Family Living Wage Act: enact (see H.R. 1104), 2617 [23FE]
Federal employees: participation in political process (see H.R. 20), 5274 [23MR]
Fire Safety at Home Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 346), 23414 [5OC]
Flight Attendant Safety Professionals' Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 186), 7437 [25AP]
Food Safety Assurance Act: enact (see H.R. 3292), 20774 [19SE]
Franklin, Benjamin: commemorative coin (see H.R. 3587), 30035 [17NO]
FTC: strengthen authority relative to telephone fraud (see H.R. 1354), 3856 [9MR]
General Aviation Standards Act: enact (see H.R. 1307), 3690 [8MR]
German-American Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 104), 14695 [13JY]
Guam: establish as a commonwealth (see H.R. 98), 28335 [9NO]
Handicapped: prohibit entrance discrimination in wilderness areas (see H.R. 3485), 26877 [1NO]
———tax credits for small businesses for costs of public accommodations for the disabled (see H.R. 3500), 26963 [2NO]
Hazardous substances: authorizing appropriations for consistency in transportation laws (see H.R. 3520), 25916 [25OC]
———Sec. of Agriculture study of effects of reclassification of anhydrous ammonia (see H.R. 371), 2553 [22FE]
Head Start Act: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 1300), 4113 [14MR]
Head Start Program: supplemental appropriations (see H.R. 1467), 4488 [16MR]
Holidays: commission to advise President on proposals for national observances (see H.R. 746), 10242 [25MY]
Honeybee: designate as national insect (see H.J. Res. 127), 22875 [3OC]
House of Representatives: amend rules relative to resolutions making continuing appropriations (see H. Res. 18), 4489 [16MR]
———inclusion in committee and conference reports of the identity, sponsor, and cost of each provision with 10 or fewer beneficiaries (see H. Res. 172), 11603 [13JN]
———prevent distortions in reapportionment (see H.R. 744), 1204 [31JA]
Hungary: opening of border (see H. Con. Res. 196), 24131 [11OC]
ICC: jurisdiction over certain acquisitions of rail carriers (see H.R. 2513), 10442 [31MY]
Income: adjust minimum wage and increase earned income tax credit (see H.R. 2637), 11817 [14JN]
Insurance: deduction for health insurance of self-employed individuals (see H.R. 694), 11603 [13JN]
———private long-term care coverage (see H.R. 3621), 28017 [8NO]
International Year of Bible Reading: designate (see H.J. Res. 275), 15160 [19JY]
Iran: persecution of the Bahais (see H. Con. Res. 87), 25499 [23OC]
Library Services and Construction Act: amend and extend (see H.R. 2742), 12934 [22JN]
Little League Baseball: anniversary (see H. Con. Res. 123), 9407 [16MY]
Local Rail Service Assistance Program: reauthorize (see H.R. 422), 208 [4JA]
Lyme Disease Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 138), 6806 [17AP]
Maternal and Child Health Improvement Act: enact (see H.R. 1584), 5270 [23MR]
Medicare: coverage and payment for services of psychologists (see H.R. 774), 1394 [2FE]
———delay certain premiums and benefits (see H.R. 1564), 5170 [22MR]
———eliminate differential payments between urban and rural hospitals (see H. Con. Res. 125), 9407 [16MY]
———improve health services in rural areas (see H.R. 762), 2072 [9FE]
———payment for screening mammography (see H.R. 1471), 7545 [26AP]
———physician reimbursement by geographic location (see H. Con. Res. 83), 5273 [23MR]
———reimbursement for ambulance services (see H.R. 1586), 5270 [23MR]
———supplemental premium and additional benefits (see H.R. 2770), 13844 [28JN]
———supplemental premium and additional benefits (H.R. 2770), consideration (see H. Res. 191), 13845 [28JN]
Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act: review by Congress (see H. Res. 169), 11603 [13JN]
Members of Congress: compensation (see H.J. Res. 26), 10443 [31MY]
———elimination of exceptions that permit personal use of excess campaign funds (see H.R. 40), 327 [20JA]
———pay adjustment (see H.J. Res. 88), 326 [20JA]
Mental Illness Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 164), 15160 [19JY]
Mexico: free trade of livestock (see H. Res. 238), 20205 [12SE]
Minimum wage: adjust (see H.R. 1392), 4111 [14MR]
Missing Persons Act: Sec. of Defense study (see H.R. 3401), 26344 [26OC]
Mississippi River National Heritage Corridor: commission to prepare a feasibility report (see H.R. 2174), 9409 [16MY]
Montana Centennial Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 106), 27808 [7NO]
Motor vehicles: transportation of food and other items intended for human consumption (see H.R. 3634), 28335 [9NO]
Mount Rushmore National Memorial: commemorative coins (see H.R. 1028), 9408 [16MY]
National Academies of Practice: recognize (see H.R. 1047), 11819 [14JN]
National Adoption Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 278), 9650 [18MY]
National Agriculture Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 117), 3858 [9MR]
National Alcohol and Drug Treatment Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 217), 18673 [3AU]
National Arab American Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 241), 25146 [18OC]
National Ceramic Tile Industry Recognition Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 67), 6333 [12AP]
National Child Care Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 182), 4990 [20MR]
National Cities Fight Back Against Drugs Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 416), 31245 [21NO]
National Culinary Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 121), 24744 [16OC]
National D.A.R.E. Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 276), 9650 [18MY]
National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the U.S.S. Iowa: designate (see H.J. Res. 247), 7435 [25AP]
National Day To Commemorate the Bastille Day Bicentennial: designate (see H.J. Res. 298), 12283 [19JN]
National Diabetes Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 210), 6333 [12AP]
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 320), 20775 [19SE]
National Down's Syndrome Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 209), 14695 [13JY]
National Drive for Life Weekend: designate (see H.J. Res. 257), 14077 [11JY]
National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 429), 30035 [17NO]
National Family Caregivers Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 282), 14077 [11JY]
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 94), 1151 [27JA]
National 4-H Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 381), 21500 [25SE]
National Glaucoma Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 397), 25499 [23OC]
National Health Care Food Service Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 141), 22292 [28SE]
National Historically Black Colleges Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 399), 20206 [12SE]
National Home Care Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 122), 21004 [20SE]
National Hospice Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 194), 5945 [11AP]
National Hostage Awareness Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 400), 20775 [19SE]
National Job Skills Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 195), 16429 [26JY]
National Korean War Veterans Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 130), 14906 [17JY]
National Learn To Fly Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 212), 7437 [25AP]
National Library Card Sign-Up Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 231), 17097 [31JY]
National Military Families Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 385), 26877 [1NO]
National Minority Cancer Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 74), 5895 [10AP]
National Minority Health Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 327), 15850 [24JY]
National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 112), 2072 [9FE]
National Osteoporosis Prevention Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 108), 4202 [15MR]
National Philanthropy Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 230), 10051 [23MY]
National Pledge of Allegiance Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 253), 15160 [19JY]
National Polio Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 260), 8207 [4MY]
National POW/MIA Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 178), 10051 [23MY]
National Quality Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 204), 19558 [6SE]
National Red Ribbon Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 373), 20404 [13SE]
National Scleroderma Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 274), 11302 [8JN]
National Spina Bifida Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 286), 24131 [11OC]
National Stroke Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 68), 7437 [25AP]
National Tap Dance Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 131), 9483 [17MY]
National Teacher Appreciation Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 198), 22744 [2OC]
National Telecommunicators Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 284), 10160 [24MY]
National Visiting Nurse Association Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 255), 11605 [13JN]
National Women and Girls in Sports Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 82), 2554 [22FE]
National Women Veterans Recognition Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 35), 24814 [17OC]
Older Americans Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 60), 1748 [7FE]
Pensions: budget treatment of railroad retirement benefits (see H. Con. Res. 220), 26876 [1NO]
———cost of living adjustments for Federal retirement program (see H.R. 1074), 8208 [4MY]
Petroleum: excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel (see H. Res. 41), 1206 [31JA]
———protect the used oil recycling system (see H.R. 1593), 9140 [15MY]
———suspend enforcement of certain regulations relative to underground storage tanks (see H.R. 3321), 21217 [21SE]
Petroleum Marketing Practices Act: amend (see H.R. 830), 1396 [2FE]
Police Corps Program: establish (see H.R. 2798), 26590 [31OC]
Postal Service: budget treatment (see H.R. 982), 3101 [1MR]
———restrictions on solicitations for purchase of products or services provided free or at lower price by the Government (see H.R. 373), 8208 [4MY]
POW/MIA: return (see H. Con. Res. 92), 11820 [14JN]
Radio: reform broadcast license renewal process (see H.R. 1136), 2899 [28FE]
Religious Freedom Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 238), 20648 [18SE]
Research: tax incentive (see H.R. 1416), 14017 [10JY]
Rural areas: economic development needs (see H. Con. Res. 140), 14077 [11JY]
Rural Emergency Medical Services Improvement Act: enact (see H.R. 1587), 5270 [23MR]
Rural Health Professionals Education Loan Interest Deduction Act: enact (see H.R. 1588), 5270 [23MR]
Rural Hospital Recovery Act: enact (H.R. 1583) (see H.R. 1583), 5270 [23MR]
Rushdie, Salman: denouncing death sentence by Ayatollah Khomeini (see H.J. Res. 154), 2618 [23FE]
Social Security: assure individualized assessments of disabled or blind children (see H.R. 868), 7754 [2MY]
———computation rule application to workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982 (see H.R. 181), 2901 [28FE]
———coverage of social worker services in rural health clinics (see H.R. 1176), 2900 [28FE]
———eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (see H.R. 2460), 10158 [24MY]
———exempt from earnings test amounts earned for child care by persons of retirement age (see H.R. 3079), 18188 [2AU]
———health services for pregnant women and infants (see H.R. 1710), 5514 [5AP]
———increase coverage for pregnant women and infants and for childhood immunizations (see H.R. 2216), 8072 [3MY]
———payment to physicians for services (see H.R. 1175), 14076 [11JY]
———place the Office of Rural Health Policy under a Deputy Under Sec. for Rural Health (see H.R. 1589), 5270 [23MR]
———revise the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant Program (see H.R. 2651), 11818 [14JN]
———States to establish State offices of rural health (see H.R. 3204), 28846 [14NO]
———work incentives relative to disability benefits (see H.R. 8), 103 [3JA]
Soviet Union: mutual and verifiable restrictions on production of plutonium and uranium (see H.R. 2403), 9648 [18MY]
SSI: receipt of certain contributions relative to benefit eligibility (see H.R. 71), 5085 [21MR]
Statehood: 100th anniversary commemorative coins for certain (see H.R. 1553), 19332 [4AU]
Taxation: allow nonexempt farmer cooperatives to elect patronage-sourced treatment for certain gains and losses (see H.R. 2353), 9406 [16MY]
———credit contributions to candidates for Congress (see H.R. 19), 103 [3JA]
———deduction for adoption expenses (see H.R. 1205), 25916 [25OC]
———deduction for educational loans (see H.R. 747), 1204 [31JA]
———deduction for health insurance costs of self-employed individuals (see H.R. 2121), 9408 [16MY]
———deduction for the adoption of a special needs child (see H.R. 3379), 22292 [28SE]
———deductions relative to interest paid on debt secured by a home (see H. Con. Res. 37), 6806 [17AP]
———delay implementation of certain reforms relative to employer benefit plans (see H.R. 518), 1153 [27JA]
———extend the exemption from the termination of small issue bonds for certain rural properties (see H.R. 2804), 15437 [20JY]
———limited deduction of health insurance costs of self-employed individuals (see H.R. 595), 5379 [4AP]
———repeal nondiscrimination rules relative to employee benefit plans (see H.R. 634), 1748 [7FE]
———treatment of estate tax inclusion related to valuation freezes (see H.R. 60), 6882 [18AP]
Telephone: operating companies to provide certain services and equipment to consumers (see H.R. 2140), 7613 [27AP]
Tobacco industry: require cigarette advertisers to include nicotine warning labels (see H.R. 1171), 2900 [28FE]
U.S. flag: constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration (see H.J. Res. 350), 14077 [11JY]
———proper display (see H.R. 1295), 12494 [20JN]
U.S. Peace Tax Fund: establish (see H.R. 1994), 6457 [13AP]
United Air Lines: tribute to volunteers assisting in rescue operations for flight 232 (see H.J. Res. 379), 16564 [27JY]
Volunteer workers: reauthorize certain programs (see H.R. 2035), 6880 [18AP]
World Food Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 267), 12937 [22JN]
World War II Remembrance Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 221), 14476 [12JY]
Remarks by, on
Anti-Drug Abuse Act: amend (H.R. 1426), 5026 [21MR]
Budget: reconciliation (H.R. 3299), 22856, 22857 [3OC], 23245 [4OC], 23344, 23381 [5OC]
———reconciliation (H.R. 3299), motion to instruct conferees, 28559 [13NO]
Commodity Exchange Act: amend relative to trading regulations (H.R. 2869), 20353 [13SE]
Congressional Pay Reform Act: enact, 297
Consumer Telecommunications Services Act: enact (H.R. 2140), 7622
Day care: provide (H.R. 1840), 6343
———tax credit, 23344, 23381 [5OC]
Dept. of Defense: appropriations for military functions (H.R. 2461), 16468 [27JY]
Domestic Volunteer Service Act: extend programs (H.R. 1312), 14054
———extend programs (H.R. 1312), conference report, 30337 [20NO]
FCC: delete fairness doctrine provisions from reconciliation, 22856, 22857 [3OC]
Head Start Act: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 1300), 5018, 5021 [21MR]
House of Representatives: legislative program, 5014 [21MR]
Hungary: political and economic reform (H.R. 3402), 25209 [19OC]
Income: congressional, executive, and judicial salaries and pensions, 1677 [6FE]
———disapproving increases in executive, legislative, and judicial salaries (H.J. Res. 129), 1711 [7FE]
Local Rail Service Assistance Program: reauthorize (H.R. 422), 29984 [17NO]
Medicare: catastrophic illness coverage, 23245 [4OC]
———supplemental premium and additional benefits (H.R. 2770), consideration (H. Res. 191), 14981 [18JY]
Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Repeal Act: enact (H.R. 3607), conference report, 30819 [21NO]
Minimum wage: adjust (H.R. 2), 5236 [23MR]
———adjust (H.R. 2), veto, 11771 [14JN]
National Railroad Passenger Corp.: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 2364), 21479 [25SE]
Nuclear warfare: limit production of plutonium and uranium for weapons, 16468 [27JY]
Poland: political and economic reform (H.R. 3402), 25209 [19OC]
Radio: reform broadcast license renewal process (H.R. 1136), 12411
Railroads: ICC authority relative to acquisition of control of certain carriers (H.R. 2343), 9124 [15MY]
———protection of employees in certain transactions (H.R. 2062), 7049
Rural areas: health care, 5206
Securities: investigation of certain trading in soybean futures, 20353 [13SE]
Taxation: family plan insurance benefits, 20712
Telephone: effects of restrictions imposed by AT&T divestiture, 26878
———operating companies to provide certain services and equipment to consumers (H.R. 2140), 10199
Television: conduct certain activities relative to promoting improvements in the industry (H.R. 823), 1656
Remarks in House relative to
Congressional Record: revise and extend remarks, 3689 [8MR], 5169 [22MR], 5943 [11AP], 6328 [12AP], 6879 [18AP], 7606 [27AP], 10158 [24MY], 12282 [19JN], 15435 [20JY], 18669 [3AU], 26875 [1NO]
Summaries
Maternal and Child Health Improvement Act (H.R. 1584), 5208
Medicare Physician Repayment Reform (H. Con. Res. 83), 5208
Office of Rural Health Policy Amendments (H.R. 1589), 5209
Rural Emergency Medical Services Improvement Act (H.R. 1587), 5208
Rural Health Care Coalition Initiatives, 5207
Rural Health Clinics Act Amendments (H.R. 1585), 5208
Rural Health Professionals Education Loan Interest Deduction Act (H.R. 1588), 5208
Rural Hospital Recovery Act (H.R. 1583), 5207
Testimonies
Committee on Rules: Polish and Hungarian Democracy Initiative (H.R. 3402), D667 [17OC]
Committee on Ways and Means: Help For the Working Poor, D67 [28FE]
———Payment of Inner-City and Rural Hospitals Under Medicare, D271 [15MY]
Tributes
Brody, David A., 26583
Hubble, Ralph, 2225 [21FE]
McGrath, James P., 3834